There is no growth in comfort and no comfort in growth. Business today typically values and promotes leaders for their subject expertise. Leaders who have command of the details and execute based on knowledge and experience are highly respected. However, to grow as a leader you have to get out of your comfort zone – that means learning to lead without just being the expert. Learn to gain the trust and respect of a team that might know more than you do. Get comfortable with ambiguity and with ...
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“Great Things Never Come From Comfort Zones” – The journey to business success is often dotted with detours and what appear to be show-stopping obstacles. Join us each month as we interview Arizona leaders in business and the community to hear what they had to overcome on the way to victory. If you want inspiration to get out of your own comfort zone, this series of business memoirs is for you.
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Persuasion and Lessons from Working with Spies with Jeremy Hurewitz
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What do spies learn in their trade that leaders can apply every day? Turns out that spies are not as the movies portray them and they have incredibly skills in connecting with people – even with people they don’t necessarily like. Intrigued? Listen in for fascinating stories and impactful insights.Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Change and Uncertainty with Curtis Bateman
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Change and uncertainty – something everyone is trying to cope with and if you lead people probably something that is easier said than done. Despite all the many books on the subject, we are still missing a key ingredient – the human at the center of change. What does that mean for you as a manager, how can you work better with middle managers, what…
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The Power of Instinct with Leslie Zane
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Understanding how our brains work provides valuable clues on how to be more persuasive, particularly when marketing a brand, conveying your message or pitching an idea. Listen in for an update on what we now know about how the brain functions along with great advice on tapping instinct and being more persuasive.…
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Overcoming Your Fear of Speaking with Linda Ugelow
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So many times, men and women have whispered to me that they are afraid of speaking in public. They know they need to get over the fear, but somehow the idea still paralyses them. As a leader, speaking in public is part of the job. There is hope! You can overcome your fear with some tools and some practice. You might come to enjoy it as well. Listen…
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Managing Remote Work with Wayne Turmel
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Remote working and hybrid teams are a reality whether you are managing individuals who prefer not to be in the office or ones that are many time zones away. What does it take to lead these teams effectively? How do hybrid teams stay connected? What is different about managing remote or hybrid teams? Listen in for insights and practices.…
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Unstick Your Career with Angela Lane and Sergey Gorbatov
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You are responsible for managing your career. But, what does that mean you should be doing? Or maybe you have been doing a reasonable job but now you feel stuck. How do you get unstuck and what you can do to keep your career on track? Listen to this episode from veteran HR leaders.Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Raising Your External Profile with Vinnie Potestivo
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Profile, brand and reputation matter for your visibility, what roles people consider you for, what opportunities come to you, how people prep to meet you. And they matter just as much internally as externally. You might be surprised how many internal leaders check LinkedIn before they meet with you. Organizations are starting to say to top talent t…
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Framing: A Unique Human Ability in an AI Driven World
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If you want to make better decisions or if you want to have a set of diverse perspectives around you to guide thinking, then this discussion is vital. How do we frame and then re-frame our points of view to get better results? What keeps us from re-framing? Why is this a unique human skill when so much of what human’s do can be done, eventually, by…
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Being Uncertain with Maggie Jackson
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Getting out of your comfort zone is ultimately about embracing uncertainty. Innovating, recognizing disruptions before they wreak havoc requires some comfort with uncertainty. Why is uncertainty so uncomfortable? Why do we work so hard to eliminate it if that’s where growth lies? What would happen if we allowed more uncertainty into our work places…
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The Power of Twos and Threes with Brad Borkan
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When it comes to achieving extra-ordinary results, we have a few myths that don’t match reality. For one, we tend to focus on “the one” person who single handedly accomplished a goal. Or, two, we tend to focus on the larger team involved in delivering a goal. What if neither are correct? What if it’s a small team or two or three that work closely t…
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Authentic Personal Brand with Peter Lichtenthal
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Your personal brand is your reputation – it is what people think about you. And I will argue it exists whether you shape it or not. From a master marketer and a CEO, what constitutes an authentic personal brand? How do you position that brand for your team and for senior leadership so that it is credible to both? How do you prepare to communicate w…
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The Laws of Connection with David Robson
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Relationships are are greatest asset at work and outside of work. So why do we know so little about how to form good ones and maintain them? What do all the psychological experiments of the last few decades have to say? If you want to know how to build stronger connections with anyone, listen in for critical insights and advice.…
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Ethical Leadership with Rick Swegan and Florian Engelke
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We want our leaders to be ethical and to consider the “greater good” in making decisions, particularly big ones. How do you identify ethical leadership and how can you develop it in yourself and in your organization? Listen in a very important debate.Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Group Coaching with Chris Williams
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Coaching is everywhere. Everyone, at every level, seems to want a personal coach whether the subject is career, leading or life. While no doubt one-one coaching can be effective, there is a growing interest in a different coaching format: peer-to-peer or even one coach with several coachees. Does this model work? Why? And How? What does it say abou…
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Languishing and the Shift to Flourishing with Corey Keyes
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Based on latest research, a lot of people are feeling lonely, unmotivated and lacking a sense of joy. No, it’s not depression or burn-out. It’s languishing. There are 5 vitamins for flipping the switch back to flourishing. Listen in to hear what languishing is, why it matters to you and to the success of your team along with what you can do about i…
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The Emotional Recession with Josh Freedman
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Emotional intelligence is an essential ingredient for great leadership and there is nothing new in that statement. What is new is recent study showing a steady global decline in emotional intelligence – across generations, cultures and industries. If you are leading people, this has big implications for how you manage people, particularly younger t…
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Encore: Making The Right Call with Sally Jenkins
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Leaders faced with decisions often ask if they made the “right” call. Winning athletes and coaches make a constant series of calls. What can we learn from studying how they make the “right calls’? What does it tell us about how to be a better leader? Tune in for fun stories and brilliant insight.Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Olympic Performances with Joey Lye
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I have been saying for a few years that leaders expect themselves to perform like Olympic athletes but do none of the preparation and practices that make today’s athletes competitive. In this episode, don’t take my word for it. Listen in to hear the story of a medal winning Olympic athelete. Learn what she did and how the same practices can apply t…
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Science of Performance with Carla Fowler
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Science has given us a window into what the best performers do that sustains and propels their performance. What distinguishes the best from the rest? What practices do you need to adopt for yourself and your team? Listen in to hear the latest advice on the skills you need.Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Career, Risk, Confidence and Generative AI
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This is a wide-ranging conversation with an entrepreneur. We talk about her big career moves, maintaining confidence, staying centered, taking risks and of course the impact of Generative AI. Listen in for a fascinating exploration of one leader’s career and how she thinks about the future.Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Nobody Cares About Your Career with Erika Ayers Badan
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Your career matters to you and therefore you are the only one who really cares, who can make the choices that will make a difference, who can define what you should do and when. Listen in for advice about really winning, making mistakes and how to know when it’s time to leave.Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Convince Me with Adele Gambardella and Chip Massey
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Being persuasive, convincing others is tough especially when the people you want to convince are over-scheduled, distracted and have a thousand things going on at any moment. Hostage negotiations and crisis communications have a many good insights for navigating the day-day challenges of persuasion. Intrigued? Listen in to understand 4 skills you c…
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Risk and Fear of Failure with Mike Rubin
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Growth mindset, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks, perseverance, willpower are all adages we hear every day about how to succeed. What if we are thinking about these in the wrong way? How can you think about risk? How do you know if you should preserve at something or change course? How do you keep from burning out? Listen in for how o…
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Proximity: Anything, Anytime, Anywhere with Robert Wolcott
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There are many disruptors on the minds of business leaders today. A.I. and automation may be at the top of the list. However, A.I and automation enable something bigger such as a drastic change in when goods are made available to customers making it possible for customers to have anything they want, anytime they want it and anywhere they want it. T…
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Impact Players and Our Relationship to Work with Liz Wiseman
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Having great impact is a worthy goal. In fact, I think it’s a better goal than striving to reach a particular title. And it forces you to ask some of the most important questions a leader needs to address like: Where can I add the greatest value and where do I put my efforts to have the greatest impact. What do impact players do that sets them apar…
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What to Say When You Disagree with Karin Hurt and David Dye
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Conflict is inevitable if you are working on complex challenges. Learning to manage conflict well will be a game changer for success as a leader and in your career. What do you say in the moment? How can you make your point without offending the other party or sounding defensive? Listen in for phrases that help you say no, manage the matrix, deal w…
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Best Team Ever with David Burkus
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In almost every aspect of business, great teams outperform individual efforts. Yet creating a ‘dream’ team isn’t as easy as it sounds. What does it take to create a winning team and how can you turn your team into a winning team?Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Uncommon Greatness with Mark Miller
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Have you ever wondered about the essential skills for being a leader that inspires people and that people want to follow? What really sets great leaders apart from the rest? Wondering what you need to develop to increase your leadership? If you answered yes to any of these, then check out answers in this episode.…
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Finding Success, Happiness and Purpose with Lan Phan
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This episode addresses one question: How do you come to understand who you are and what matters to you so that you can live the life you want to live and feel satisfied with your life? To answer that key question, we dive into how to define what matters, how to understand your core values, how to understand who you are and who you are not and how t…
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Avoiding Procrastination with Sam Bennett
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Most of us avoid getting things done either from fear or self-doubt or lack of time. Regardless what you need to get done or your temperament on planning, this episode will give you fabulous tips for how to get things done and get over the inner critic.Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Breathwork and De-Stressing with Lauren Vestal
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Stress comes from the big events at work and outside of work as well as in all the small micro moments. Managing stress levels may well be the most important thing for leaders to do to keep from over-reacting, stressing their teams and amplifying negative energy. Breathing is the best way to manage your stress in the moment. But there is more to br…
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Solving Problems with Atif Rafiq
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If you are leading a team, you probably spend a lot of your time solving problems with or for the team. And, perhaps you spend more time than you like persuading others, especially senior most leaders, that those solutions are good or that change is necessary. Is there a better way to solve problems – one that encourages innovation and that fosters…
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Exploring with Whitney Johnson
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Taking time to explore is one of the things that we need to do more of but that is out of the comfort zone for those that are task focused and time starved. Yet exploring is a precursor to being strategic, to spotting opportunities, to growing and even to being innovative – whether that’s big innovation like a new service or small innovation like a…
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Science of Motivation with Ayelet Fishbach
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This is part of the motivation series. In this episode, we turn to science to ask what research tells us about motivating ourselves and others.Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Motivation and Personality with Ryne Sherman
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One of the most common questions I get is about how to motivate a team, and yourself as a leader. In this multi-part series, we address that question with the best in research and in practice. In this episode, we are asking what really motivates and drives people and how is that related to personality. Then we will talk about the practical implicat…
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Incentives That Drive Change with Bruce Rigal
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This is part of a series on motivation where we explore what you can do to motivate your team and yourself. The focus in this episode is incentives. What does the research say about incentives as an means of motivating and driving change? What does experience say about how to use incentives to create change? What works and what doesn’t work? Listen…
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Motivating and Leading with Sam Kendall
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This is another installment in the series on motivation, a key concern for many leaders. This episode focuses on the lessons of experience from a leader who has lead in many countries across many groups. Listen in to hear an on the ground perspective of what it takes to keep your team and your organization motivated.…
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Transformation through Communication with Jacqueline Farrington
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Communication is the means for inspiring, motivating, persuading, transforming, sparking innovation, developing and nuturing a talented team. This episode focuses on transformation and how to use communication to get the outcomes and engagement you are seeking. Listen in for great advance on leveling up your communication.…
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The Leaders We Choose with Moshik Temkin
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Which leaders do we gravitate to in time of stability versus in time of crisis? Are leaders changed by events or not? What does that say about how you should think about your leadership and situation in which you are leading? Listen in for a fascinating, extremely relevant perspective from history and answer the question of whether events make the …
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Fixing Friction with Huggy Rao
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Do you feel that you are stuck in mire and can’t get things done? Is your organization wasting a lot of time with inefficiency? Are seemingly simple actions overly complicated? Tune in to understand the causes of friction and what to do about them.Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Winning in the People Age with Kate Bravery
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Being a people leader has never been more important and never more difficult at the same time. Demands, expectations, work load, burn out, complexity, hybrid working, quiet quitting to name a few have altered the landscape for leaders and employers. What does it take to succeed and to win in this climate? Tune in to hear the 10 truths you need to m…
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Being Fooled with Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
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None of us, regardless how competent or cautious we are, are immune from being fooled. If you doubt that you can be deceived, then tune in to hear how it happens. If you know you can be deceived, then tune in to hear how to navigate without becoming hyper cynical. How do scams work, how do you get fooled and what can you do about it?…
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ur Sense of Self with Brian Lowery
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Those giving you advice about how to improve your leadership typically start with the advice to “know yourself”. But have you ever stopped to think about what constitutes your sense of self? How do you define your self? What does that say about how you can change yourself or can you change? How does this help us understand how we find meaning? How …
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Cascading Change with Greg Satell
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One way or another, every leader is trying to create change. However, organizations are extremely slow to adopt change even when the logic for doing so is compelling. We are missing something. Tune in to hear what we know about when and how change happens, what you need to do as a leader and how you can best cascade the change your organization so …
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Conversation and Social Presence with Jeanine Turner
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Regardless where you sit in an organization or the part of the world in which you reside, I think we can all agree that the quality of our conversations has declined in the last few years. Time is in precious supply, the task list is unending, the coordination burden is high and the channels have multiplied. All of which put pressure on our ability…
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Encore How Mindfulness Gives You an Edge with Matt Tenney
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No doubt you have heard about mindfulness and may have attended a workshop at your organization. If you are not yet a devotee, tune in to hear why mindfulness has such a powerful impact for leaders given today’s workplace challenges. If you want to start a practice without devoting hours, we will show you how.…
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Mindtraps with Hortense le Gentil
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What holds you back? Most of us create our own traps that keep us from stepping out of our comfort zone. What are the common mindtraps? How are they created? How do we find the courage and wisdom to make a change? Tune in to learn how.Kirjoittanut Wanda Wallace
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Great Leadership with Tim Elmore
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Great leadership involves a complex set of demands – often ones in conflict with each other. In this episode we begin with the eight biggest paradoxes leaders must learn to balance to be truly exceptional. Then we turn to a more recent paradox – that of trying to understand and manage multiple generations in the workplace while being fair to all an…
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"I definitely was out of my comfort zone and the first time I picked up that firearm, my palms were sweaty. So, I conquered that because of my drive to really make sure I could keep my family safe," says Alicia Wadas, a life-long advertising, marketing and public relations professional. Watch for the full episode highlighting four significant life …
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Resilience with Marie-Hélène Pelletier
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Getting out of your comfort zone means learning to cope with mistakes and set-backs – in other words being resilient. In fact, senior leaders often give the feedback that people in the organization need to be more resilient particularly given the change, uncertainty and chaos around all of us. But, what does that mean – being resilient? Why? Beyond…
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